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A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures
A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures by Ezekiel Hopkins ...
London: printed by E.H. for Nathanael Ranew, 1693
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, Here is the Person that gives out this Pardon, and that is God; accented here by a vehement Ingemination, I, even I am he.
Secondly, Here is the Pardon it self; which for the greater Confirmation of our Faith and Hope, is redoubled: I, even I am he that blotteth out thy Transgressions, ⟨p. 4⟩and will not remember th• sins.
Thirdly, Here are the Motives, or impulsive cause that prevailed with God, thi• to proclaim pardon unto guilty Malefactor• and that is for his own sake. I am h• that blotteth out thy Transgressions for m• own sake.
1. As for the first particular, I, even • am he; we may observe, That God seems more to triumph in the Glory o his pardoning Grace and Mercy, tha he doth in any other of his Attributes I, even I am he: Such a stately Preface must needs usher in somewhat wherein God and his Honour is much advanced. Is it therefore, I am he that spread forth the Heavens, and marshalled all their Host, that hang up the Earth in the midst of the Air, that breathed forth all the Creatures upon the face of it, that poured out the great Deeps, and measured them all in the hollow of my hand, that ride upon the wings of the Wind, and make the Clouds the Dust of my Feet. This though it might awe and amuse the hearts of Men, yet God counts it not his chiefest Glory;